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New comment by rv3392 in "Googlebook"

rv3392 — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:47:03 +0000

I think there's a difference between cancelled (or renamed in the case of Google Home and Nexus) product lines and something no longer working. Most of that list falls into the former, but otherwise probably work fine.

This Googlebook will probably be a lot like the Pixelbook. Probably cancelled after 1 generation, but still usable for 5-10 years as you'd expect from a laptop.

New comment by rv3392 in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

rv3392 — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:59:07 +0000

Useful links:

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/valve-to-pay-3-million...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/29/service-v...

New comment by rv3392 in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"

rv3392 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:41:24 +0000

No they won't. Oracle already has many teams that report to a people manager in India/Mexico/etc. and then dotted line report to another manager in the USA who actually calls the shots.

New comment by rv3392 in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

rv3392 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:59:50 +0000

I've been using Rectangle (https://rectangleapp.com/) for years now. IMO the shortcuts actually make it a massive improvement over Windows.

New comment by rv3392 in "What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025"

rv3392 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:08:50 +0000

How do you bird-proof them?

New comment by rv3392 in "SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image"

rv3392 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 06:28:37 +0000

This specific paper is pretty different to the kind of photo/video generation that has been hyped up in recent years. In this case, I think this might be what they're using for the iOS spatial wallpaper feature, which is arguably useless but is definitely an aesthetic differentiator to Android devices. So, it's indirectly making money.

New comment by rv3392 in "Companies are lying about AI layoffs?"

rv3392 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:03:34 +0000

> Yes, this is something concrete that I can agree on. But how would you prove that given that we don't have access to that data?

Without that data you can't really draw any conclusion can you? For all we know companies are hiring a higher percentage of American workers now. All we know from the data shown is that companies are hiring some new H1-B holders and retaining a lot of existing H1-B holders.

New comment by rv3392 in "I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework"

rv3392 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:53:09 +0000

Interesting to see this is so variable.

I got a Steam Deck OLED a few months ago. I haven't changed the standby behaviour at all. I can get a bit less than a week of standby + a few hours of gaming out of the box. Currently, my deck is on 52% charge after last charging it 4 days ago and playing ~3 hours of Silksong across those days.

New comment by rv3392 in "I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework"

rv3392 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:44:52 +0000

I believe they mean it lasts 14+ hours in sleep.

New comment by rv3392 in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

rv3392 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 09:13:51 +0000

I get where you're coming from, but I think you need to understand that the vast majority of people (conservatively maybe >95%) are perfectly fine with using Amazon. If you just start metaphorically punching all of them you won't convince them of anything. I don't think you can really make something socially poisonous that way without a significant group of people, in socially powerful positions, already agreeing with you.

I think you're overestimating how many people think like you on both of these topics (iOS/Android and Amazon).

New comment by rv3392 in "“Secret Mall Apartment,” a Protest for Place"

rv3392 — Fri, 23 May 2025 06:50:33 +0000

I love Dear Hank and John, but IMO it's nothing like 99PI.

New comment by rv3392 in "A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen"

rv3392 — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 01:53:13 +0000

AFAIK the average emissions are based on cars that were actually sold. So yeah, it's weighted for popularity in a way.

New comment by rv3392 in "What the hell is a target triple?"

rv3392 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 22:04:28 +0000

Apart from IBM Power/AIX systems, SPARC/Solaris is another one. I wouldn't say either of these are used a lot, but there's a reasonable amount of legacy systems out there that are still being supported by IBM and Oracle.

New comment by rv3392 in "Stay on schedule with Raspberry Pi Pico W and an e-ink dashboard"

rv3392 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 11:32:32 +0000

The expectation is that anyone looking at Pimoroni products will probably just 3D-print (or produce in some other way) a case. They're not trying to sell this as a finished product.

New comment by rv3392 in "Stay on schedule with Raspberry Pi Pico W and an e-ink dashboard"

rv3392 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 11:30:59 +0000

That's the point though? They're trying to show off the functionality of the display/board to interest you in using it for a side project (might not even be a calendar).

Pimoroni's entire target market is hobbyists, educators and people who want to do bespoke things with electronics. They're not interested in buying finished products because they either enjoy working on projects or it would be too limiting for their needs or both.

If you just want a finished product buy one of the other countless e-ink calendar displays that exist.

New comment by rv3392 in "MacBook Air M4"

rv3392 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:20:15 +0000

I don't think the SL7 is a like-for-like comparison even if it seems like it on paper. The SL7 is great if you want/need to run Windows - I convinced my sister to get one and she loves the battery life and low heat (less fain noise) compared to her previous devices.

If you want a nix experience, Linux support is still a WIP and progress is quite slow because of a lack of help from Snapdragon and OEMs. I expect that it might take a generation or two to get it to the point where it was with the x86 SLs.

However, at this stage, I'm tired of the quirks of Windows so the lack of nix support pushed me to get the Macbook Air for myself.

New comment by rv3392 in "September 17, 1787: "A Republic, If You Can Keep It""

rv3392 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 01:16:45 +0000

Very interesting read as an Australian. Helped me with understanding why US politics feels so different to Australia despite the cultural similarities.

New comment by rv3392 in "You can’t build a moat with AI (redux)"

rv3392 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:02:09 +0000

ML is still a thing. I believe that most AI research is still non-LLM ML-related - things like CNN+Computer Vision, RL, etc. In my opinion, the hype around LLMs has a lot to do with its accessibility to the general public compared to existing ML techniques which are highly specialised.

New comment by rv3392 in "Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line"

rv3392 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 23:39:28 +0000

Definitely most Australian cities. In Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne or Perth you'd be waking up in the middle of nowhere in most cases.

New comment by rv3392 in "Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid"

rv3392 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:56:43 +0000

I don't understand the issue with cast iron pots after reading that either.

My understanding is that to get iron overload, your body would need to absorb excess iron and store it. This happens with haemochromatosis over a long time (30+ years), but it can also happen if you consume way too much iron by, for example, taking too many iron supplements when you don't need them. In normal circumstances and with a standard diet, the body will regulate it's iron intake so that too much doesn't get stored and so there's no iron oberload.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but this leaves me a little confused about what the commenter meant. If you have a normal diet and don't have haemochromatosis or some other confounding factor, I don't see how enough iron could be leached from a cast iron pot to cause iron overload.